I fell in love with the Editor’s Choice Award winning Magnepull, a tool professional installers use for fishing cables through walls, and I wanted to give it a try. Since we figured this tool would make it easy for anyone to run wires – not just professionals – Mark Z. grabbed a camera and filmed me fishing the cable through the wall so you guys could see how easy it is to do.
Tutorial: How to Fish Wire Through Your Walls Using a Magnepull
October 5, 2011 By 1 Comment
Awesome Ways to Visualize People’s Emotions
February 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
MoodStream - Sets the Mood
Here are some amazingly awesome ways to visualize people’s emotions that you may have never heard of.
We Feel Fine
"We Feel Fine" - Emotion Visualizer
We Feel Fine is a computer program that strives to paint a portrait of all the raw human emotion that the Internet contains in its blogs. It was created by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar in 2005.
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5 Impressive Flickr Visualizations
January 14, 2011 By 1 Comment
When Flickr first appeared on the Internet, it was simply a handy tool to store and view photos. In the capable hands of visualization designers, Flickr has become a nexus of information about how people see the world.
Features such as tagging, groups, friend networks, and timestamps enrich each image with social and temporal context. Here are five visualizations that use Flickr’s meta information to highlight the unseen patterns behind all of those beautiful pictures.
1. Tagged Color
If an image is tagged “summer,” what colors do you expect? What images come to mind with the word “magenta?” What colors are people compelled to photograph? Christian Giordano’s Tagged Color visualization explores these questions and more. By mapping the user-supplied color field data and the most popular correlating tags, this visualization shows fascinating trends in the obsession with color.
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SawStop Inventor Sticks His Finger in the Spinning Blade
December 2, 2008 By 8 Comments
Ok, so I told you guys about the SawStop table saw about 6 months ago, and if you’ll recall, this is the table saw that will stop when it senses flesh touching the blade in order to save the roughly 10 fingers that get cut off every day.
Well, the inventor of the SawStop, Steve Gass, finally stuck his own finger directly into the blade on a Discovery TV show and put his money where his mouth… er, finger is. Watch and see what happens!
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SawStop – The Safest Table Saw on the Planet
June 1, 2008 By 10 Comments
If you’re anything like me, you appreciate a nicely built power tool. Seriously, I love the smell of a workshop in the morning! Of course, I’m not as big of a fan of all the bleeding that normally occurs in said workshop… and I tend to do that a lot while I’m building things.
So, anything that can be done to increase the safety of a power tool is a good thing. And the table saw is one of the most dangerous pieces of equipment in the world! 60,000 table saw accidents occur every year – that’s one every 9 minutes.
Now there is an answer to this problem. The SawStop.
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The Trojan: World’s First Body Armor Exoskeleton
May 17, 2007 By 17 Comments
A Canadian named Troy Hurtubise, invented a superhuman body suit specifically designed to be worn by troops and police officers which he claims is capable of stopping a range of weapons fire, blades and even shrapnel from IEDs.
This isn’t Troy’s first dance either. He previously invented a suit which was intended to be able to survive a bear attack, and even made a video of it.
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PlasmaCAM Video Review – Fact vs. Fiction
February 7, 2007 By 127 Comments
This site has been getting a lot of visitors from the search engines due to my previous posts about the PlasmaCAM CNC Plasma Cutting Machine.
These visits have translated into quiet a few questions coming in via my contact form. Several people considering the purchase of a PlasmaCAM have received the DVD from them and have been asking me how much of it is true. After all, Stan makes it sound so easy to start creating anything you can imagine from metal with this machine. ;-)
As a result, I’m going to walk you through the video step-by-step and provide analysis to help separate fiction from fact.
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Atmospheric Water Extraction
November 13, 2006 By Leave a Comment
A company called Aqua Sciences was recently put on the Time Best Inventions list for it’s portable water extraction systems. These systems can be deployed to areas affected by disaster to ensure adequate clean water supplies.
The 20-foot machine can churn out 600 gallons of water a day without using or producing toxic materials and byproducts. They also have larger units that can pump out 1200 gallons a day.
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Diagnose That Annoying Check Engine Light
November 5, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Every car built since 1996 has a diagnostic computer connection under the dash called an OBD-II which allows mechanics to plug in and find out what that annoying red light on the dash is trying to tell you. Of course, getting a mechanic to plug in and tell you what’s wrong will probably cost you at least $100.
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